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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Port-Olry in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on January 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -14.542S, 166.967WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-Olry in Vanuatu. Exact location, longitude 166.967° East, latitude -14.542° South, depth = 6.56 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.56 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/16 / 2016-01-23 07:49:43 / January 23, 2016 @ 7:49 am. The temblor was detected at 18:49:43 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004gl0. Event ids that are associated: us10004gl0.

Country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sola. The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Sola (c. 1 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km N of Port-Olry, Vanuatu. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.967° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -14.542° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km N of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-23 07:49:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-23 08:07:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.928 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004gl0 Id of event.
Event Code 10004gl0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004gl0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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